Clara Matynka High School Art Folio, and Some Other Art News

  

Our CAMZ saved a couple of folios
from her art courses
at Kensington High School
in Buffalo, from which
she was a 1947 graduate.

This one contains a stack two inches high
of 12" x 9" drawings on heavy stock.
We never saw these but  once
during her lifetime;
all her work she kept up in the attic.

Pen-and-ink and watercolor.
Do you have some time?
We are just at the top of the stack.

The Greeks painted their
architectural detail
and the detail on their statuary.
We have to keep reminding ourselves
of that when what we see
is weathered stone scattered about.

Those three golden-brown things
are done in a shiny metallic paint.

Another art unveiling, in a different league, you might say, and on the other side of the planet, was recently in the news.  I put it up for my wallpaper:

Poland's great artist, Jan Matejko, is depicted in a bronze statue
just unveiled recently, as it happens, in the Square of the Old Town
of Krakow.  While photographing this bottle for the sake of the label,
I caught the wallpaper by dumb luck.

There, now you can see the photo properly.
Beard, Barbican, and all, it's from an article in "The News from Poland,"
mentioning the recent unveiling ceremony.